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How White Folks Got So Rich: The Untold Story of American White Supremacy (The Architecture of White Supremacy Book Series) by Reclamation Project
Updated and expanded pocket-size expose' of American WHITE SUPREMACY. This booklet explores the government policies, the corporate schemes, the \"special arrangements,\" the racist and devious actions that are at the very foundation of White Wealth in America. If you thought...
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Ties That Bind: The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom
This beautifully written book, now in its second edition, tells the haunting saga of a quintessentially American family. In the late 1790s, Shoe Boots, a famed Cherokee warrior and successful farmer, acquired an African slave named Doll. Over the next...
$31.00
Ties That Bind: The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom
This beautifully written book, now in its second edition, tells the haunting saga of a quintessentially American family. In the late 1790s, Shoe Boots, a famed Cherokee warrior and successful farmer, acquired an African slave named Doll. Over the next...
$26.95
Through the Tax Assessor's Eyes: Enslaved People, Free Blacks and Slaveholders in Early Nineteenth Century Baltimore
Based primarily upon the original tax assessor ledgers for 1813 and 1818 housed at the Baltimore City Archives, this work identifies all free blacks and slave owners in Baltimore by name, race, address, occupation, names/ages of slaves owned (if any),...
$59.00
Thinking Black: Britain, 1964-1985 (Volume 14)
It was a common charge among black radicals in the 1960s that Britons needed to start “thinking black.” As state and society consolidated around a revived politics of whiteness, “thinking black,” they felt, was necessary for all who sought to...
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Thinking Black: Britain, 1964-1985 (Volume 14)
It was a common charge among black radicals in the 1960s that Britons needed to start “thinking black.” As state and society consolidated around a revived politics of whiteness, “thinking black,” they felt, was necessary for all who sought to...
$123.50
"There Are No Slaves in France": The Political Culture of Race and Slavery in the Ancien Régime
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"There Are No Slaves in France": The Political Culture of Race and Slavery in the Ancien Régime
There Are No Slaves in France examines the paradoxical emergence of political antislavery and institutional racism in the century prior to the French Revolution. Sue Peabody shows how the political culture of late Bourbon France created ample opportunities for contestation over...
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Theodore Gericault, Painting Black Bodies: Confrontations and Contradictions
This book examines Théodore Géricault’s images of black men, women and children who suffered slavery’s trans-Atlantic passage in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, including his 1819 painting The Raft of the Medusa. The book focuses on Géricault’s depiction of...
$212.50
Terms of Inclusion: Black Intellectuals in Twentieth-Century Brazil
In this history of black thought and racial activism in twentieth-century Brazil, Paulina Alberto demonstrates that black intellectuals, and not just elite white Brazilians, shaped discourses about race relations and the cultural and political terms of inclusion in their modern...
$56.25
Teaching History to Black Students in the United Kingdom
At a time when populist movements have gained ground across the globe and migrants have taken center stage as unwanted pariahs in the eyes of many, this book dares to tackle a culturally relevant threat, much talked about but seldom...
$128.99
Taxing Blackness: Free Afromexican Tribute in Bourbon New Spain
A definitive analysis of the most successful tribute system in the Americas as applied to AfromexicansDuring the eighteenth century, hundreds of thousands of free descendants of Africans in Mexico faced a highly specific obligation to the Spanish crown, a tax...
$68.99
Suspect Freedoms: The Racial and Sexual Politics of Cubanidad in New York, 1823-1957
Beginning in the early nineteenth century, Cubans migrated to New York City to organize and protest against Spanish colonial rule. While revolutionary wars raged in Cuba, expatriates envisioned, dissected, and redefined meanings of independence and nationhood. An underlying element was...
$36.00
Suspect Freedoms: The Racial and Sexual Politics of Cubanidad in New York, 1823-1957
Beginning in the early nineteenth century, Cubans migrated to New York City to organize and protest against Spanish colonial rule. While revolutionary wars raged in Cuba, expatriates envisioned, dissected, and redefined meanings of independence and nationhood. An underlying element was...
$115.99
The Surreptitious Speech: Presence Africaine and the Politics of Otherness 1947-1987
Distinguished scholar V. Y. Mudimbe assembles a lively tribute to Presence Africaine, the landmark African studies journal begun in 1947 Paris. While it celebrates the project's forty-year history, The Surreptitious Speech does not naively canonize the journal but rather offers a vibrant discussion...
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The Surreptitious Speech: Presence Africaine and the Politics of Otherness 1947-1987
Distinguished scholar V. Y. Mudimbe assembles a lively tribute to Presence Africaine, the landmark African studies journal begun in 1947 Paris. While it celebrates the project's forty-year history, The Surreptitious Speech does not naively canonize the journal but rather offers a vibrant discussion...
$162.50
The Struggle: A History of the African National Congress
Recounts the A.N.C.'s efforts to end apartheid, and describes the experiences of its jailed leader, Nelson Mandela
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Steve Biko: Decolonial Meditations of Black Consciousness
Moving away from the domain of commemorative, iconicity, monumentalization, and memorialization, Sithole uses Steve Biko's meditations as a discursive intervention to understand black subjectivity. The epistemological shift of this book is not to be bogged down by the cataloging of...
$133.99
Staying Power: The History of Black People in Britain
“A fascinating account of the growth of the black community in Britain over the past centuries.”—Guardian“For this retrieval of the lost histories of black Britain, Mr. Fryer has my deep gratitude. An invaluable book.”—Salman Rushdie Staying Power is a panoramic history...
$138.00
Staying Power: The History of Black People in Britain
“A fascinating account of the growth of the black community in Britain over the past centuries.”—Guardian“For this retrieval of the lost histories of black Britain, Mr. Fryer has my deep gratitude. An invaluable book.”—Salman Rushdie Staying Power is a panoramic history...
$22.95
South Africa: Diary of Troubled Times
This volume is a fascinating collection of pieces by South African journalist Nomavenda Mathiane. Unlike much that is written about South Africa, these pieces are very personal observations and reflections based on day-to-day experiences. They range from descriptions of the...
$60.00
South Africa: Diary of Troubled Times
This volume is a fascinating collection of pieces by South African journalist Nomavenda Mathiane. Unlike much that is written about South Africa, these pieces are very personal observations and reflections based on day-to-day experiences. They range from descriptions of the...
$120.00
A History of the ANC: South Africa Belongs to Us
" . . . Meli combines the insights of an insider with sound scholarship." ―Patrick O'Meara"Meli's book is a welcome addition to the literature on South Africa." ―L. E. Meyer, Choice" . . . the book is written in a...
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South Africa: A Botched Civilization?: Racial Conflict and Identity in Selected South African Novels
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South Africa: A Botched Civilization?: Racial Conflict and Identity in Selected South African Novels
South Africa: A Botched Civilization? examines how South African novelists, both Black and white, portray the impact of racial conflict on the identities of both the oppressed and the oppressor. This book gives an in-depth analysis of several major authors...
$81.99
Soul to Soul: A Black Russian Jewish Woman's Search for Her Roots
“Tells the remarkable story of Ms. Khanga’s family, shedding light into unfamiliar corners of both the Soviet and American pasts. . . . [An] unusual and fascinating odyssey. . . . However Yelena Khanga reconciles the complex strands of her...
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Sorcery and Sovereignty: Taxation, Power, and Rebellion in South Africa, 1880–1963
Rebellions broke out in many areas of South Africa shortly after the institution of white rule in the late nineteenth century and continued into the next century. However, distrust of the colonial regime reached a new peak in the mid-twentieth...
$45.99
Sorcery and Sovereignty: Taxation, Power, and Rebellion in South Africa, 1880–1963
Rebellions broke out in many areas of South Africa shortly after the institution of white rule in the late nineteenth century and continued into the next century. However, distrust of the colonial regime reached a new peak in the mid-twentieth...
$104.00
Songs of Zion: The African Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States and South Africa
This is a study of the transplantation of a creed devised by and for African Americans--the African Methodist Episcopal Church--that was appropriated and transformed in a variety of South African contexts. Focusing on a transatlantic institution like the African Methodist...
$312.00
Sol Plaatje: A Life of Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje, 1876-1932 (Reconsiderations in Southern African History)
While the story of modern South Africa has long captured global attention, the story of one of its key forefathers has been eclipsed by those of more iconic political figures. In Sol Plaatje: A Life, Brian Willan restores to history the importance...
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The Smell of Slavery
In the Atlantic World, different groups were aromatically classified in opposition to other ethnic, gendered, and class assemblies due to an economic necessity that needed certain bodies to be defined as excremental, which culminated in the creation of a progressive...
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Slaves, Subjects, and Subversives: Blacks in Colonial Latin America
Almost eleven of the twelve million Africans who survived the trauma of enslavement in Africa and the horrors of the Middle Passage, remade their lives in territories claimed by Spain or Portugal. Drawing on a wealth of previously unused sources,...
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